Swimming Alone - Liz Rose

It was a crawdad spring and a grasshopper summer

I had a dime store daddy and a paperback mother

Sister had a boyfriend and brother was playing ball

And I was raising myself, the last of them all

So I jumped in, closed my eyes

There was a party going on with nobody home

No one to mind me, or looking to find me

I was outside in the backyard swimming alone

I was a California dreamer in a hot Texas town

And I was too young to drive but I still got around

Climbing out of windows just to get stoned

Out there on the edge swimming alone

But I jumped in, closed my eyes

I was always running away from home

But on my side was my heart open wide

I learned how to survive swimming alone

Yeah

I’ve had friends and lovers and so many others

I’ve had a lot of good deals and plans that I broke

Sometimes you get burned but that’s how you learn

When you’re out there in the world swimming alone

So I jumped in, closed my eyes

Don’t bother calling 'cause I won’t pick up the phone

Baby don’t mind me, you know where to find me

I’m outside in the backyard swimming alone

I’ll be outside in the backyard swimming alone